On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Daniel Veditz <dveditz@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 2/1/11 10:59 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
>> The current syntax seems to be something like the following:
>>
>> policy = directive *( ";" directive )
>> directive = *LWS directive-name 1*LWS directive-value
>> directive-name = <CHAR, except LWS and ";">
>> directive-value = <CHAR, except ";">
>>
>> Is that right?
>
> Very close, if you get rid of the current requirement to explicitly
> specify "allow" (which I don't like anyway)
>
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/CSP/Specification#Formal_Policy_Syntax
>
>> Another alternative is something like JSON, which is compact and
>> extensible, but might not be sufficiently legible:
>>
>> Content-Security-Policy: {"script-src": ["example.com", "*.paypalobjects.com"]}
>
> I'll grant the extensibility win, but it's LESS compact than what we
> have now due to the required braces, brackets, and quoting. It's a
> clear lose on legibility but that may be somewhat compensated for by
> making it easy for tools to parse and write.
Only less compact by a nose. :)
Adam